About this title: Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film "Me and You and Everyone We Know," Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection.
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Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743571579ISBN:0743571576
Description: New. An unabridged recording on five CDs. Brand-new new in the shrink wrap. Five audio CDs. Factory sealed. Gift quality. Publisher remainder Mark over the bar code under the shrinkwrap. Enjoy this unabridged audio performance! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781841959306ISBN:1841959308
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Edition: Later printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743299398ISBN:0743299396
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Used: Like New. This is a pristine book. "These stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound. Miranda July is a very real writer, and has one of the most original voices to appear in fiction in many years. Fans of Lorrie Moore should rub this book all over themselves--she's got that perfect balance of humor and pathos. There has been no more enjoyable and promising a debut collection in many a ... read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN-13:9780743571579ISBN:0743571576
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780743571579ISBN:0743571576
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743299398ISBN:0743299396
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0743299396. Signed by July on the title page. The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events.; Signed by Author. read more
Description: Good. Edges wrinkled on dj., Used-Good. Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear. Books uploaded via isbn and stock photos may be different than actual book. read more
"One of the worst collections I've ever finished. I bought this one in hardcover when it first came out and was excited to read it because it had great buzz and won the Frank O'Connor prize. Sadly, I struggled through every story. Perhaps I will enjoy this more on some future reread; and I'm even willing to concede that I might be tone-deaf to this author at this time, but I suspect she was given a free pass on her fiction because of her success as a filmmaker. The cover blurbs trumpet her originality; but after just rereading Amy Hempel's 1985 collection Reasons to Live (she provided one of the cover blurbs), that still seems more original than July's No One Belongs Here More Than You.
The strength of this collection is the narrative voice, which does have snap and a nice turn of phrase that might be unique. The down side of that voice is that it is monologic: a neurotic speed rap (meth or other psychotropic drug) that wears thin by the end of the first story and then repeats itself for another 180 pages. It seems to me that July, as author, has fallen in love with listening to that voice (herself?) talk.
What makes this a terrible collection to my sensibility is the lack of love for her characters and especially the narrators. I'm all for exposing human weaknesses and revealing character's dark sides, but the condescension July exhibits towards her characters in this collection just had me continuously wanting to stop reading. Some may claim that she's rendering irony as Saunders (another blurber on the book's cover) does; which is the current defense against any pejorative criticism. I don't buy that defense. Saunders' irony is obvious and part of his shtick. July's voice is trying too hard to be hip, but ends up tone deaf, and, being charitable, is inadvertently full of character assassinations."
"First, I should say that I only read three and two halves of the stories in this book. (The two halves were aborted attempts at making it through the entire book). Although I haven't seen Juno, from what I've gathered from the constant clips and previews, I think these stories are probably the literary equivalent. Ultra-hip, ultra-clever, and, uh, a little vapid. Might work for a movie, but not a collection of short stories.
Miranda July's performance art and film is amazing, and I feel lucky to have seen her work over the years I lived in Portland. Her stories, however, lack a bit of the tightrope tension of her films, in which her characters are often held above dark pits of loneliness and despair by a few meager strands of hope and creativity.
The only story I liked in here was "Something that Needs Nothing", a sad story of two best friends, one of whom is in love with the other, who move their naive and reckless lives to Portland, OR. Given that I like almost anything that is set in Portland, that might color this review, but I actually think that her sarcastic, dry voice works best in the mouth of a teenager, especially one that's just moved from the suburbs to the, er, city of Portland.
I would probably actually give this one star if it wasn't for that story, and that I really really like her performance art and films."
"I am a cynical, old curmudgeon. I don't like darlings, I have no use for them. Miranda July is nothing if not a darling. So it is with great dismay that I report that she is also a terrific writer. Her stories are almost deceptive in their simplicity. What seems like it should be easy and cute is instead stark and visceral. Granted, I haven't read the whole thing: I just sneak stories in on my smoke breaks and read everything she publishes in literary journals. But I read "Majesty" and could just imagine her darling little face floating mockingly above me screeching "who's the darling now, bitch.""
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